La Grulla News

Maybe they should have tried harvesting the sorghum instead. U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested three men Thursday afternoon after they said they saw them pushing a wheelbarrow full of marijuana from the Rio Grande near La Grulla.

La Grulla's former police chief will now have to register as a sex offender. A Starr county jury found Alfredo Hernandez guilty of criminal solicitation of a minor.

La Grulla's former police chief will be back in court in Rio Grande City this morning.

For $800, "M. Zuniga" thought his legal troubles were resolved. The Starr County man told police he paid Home Town Bail Bonds two payments of $400 to take care of sequential arrests for public intoxication in Rio Grande City - even though in both cases, Zuniga was released by a magistrate on personal recognizance bonds.

There are two very different Oscar Gonzalezes. The 41-year-old mayor of La Grulla describes himself as the last bulwark in his tiny Starr County town against a tide of local and county-wide corruption.

A city water plant supervisor faces federal drug charges for allegedly using a government truck to smuggle cocaine, prosecutors said Tuesday.

The city lacks a certified Texas Law Enforcement Telecommunications Dispatcher. The mayor hopes the city can grow through annexation so they can hire a licensed dispatcher.

Crews are keeping an eye on hot spots on a Starr County fire. The command center is i n La Grulla.

It took 18 fire departments and a fortuitous shift in the weather to bring a fire under control in eastern Starr County on Thursday night.

LA GRULLA, Texas-The mayor of a south Texas city is out of jail on bond after his arrest for allegedly threatening to kill a local commissioner.

The mayor was arrested on charges of making a terroristic threat, after allegedly threatening to attack another city leader.

Authorities recovered the body of a Sullivan City man Thursday who drowned in the International Falcon Reservoir last month.

Mexican authorities near this town across the border from La Grulla recovered the body of a man who drowned in the International Falcon Reservoir when his boat capsized.

A wildfire scorched 40 acres of land here, threatening nearby homes and nearly reaching a propane business.

Someone burning trash sparked a major grassfire near La Grulla. Fire crews say the blaze burned about 30 acres total, and came close to some 15 homes.

LA GRULLA a ' The City of La Grulla has one police unit back on duty after the majority of police officers and city employees walked out on the job yesterday.

A flurry of finger-pointing at City Hall has puzzled the residents of this tiny town.

LA GRULLA a ' Jose Galavis, a resident of La Grulla says hea TMs worried about the city.

A total of 26 city employees from city hall, the public works department, and the police and fire departments are refusing to go back to work.

Something's rotten in the City of La Grulla, one former police chief says. Arturo Hernandez, who served as the city's top cop until July 2006, has filed a federal lawsuit claiming municipal politics cost him ...